That’s right, the timeless recordings of Richard Marx, Janet Jackson, Journey, No Doubt, Godsmack and others all fell victim to the wretched criminal workings of Jammie Thomas, who clearly lacked the moral compass to properly support these artists by purchasing their albums legitimately. Even worse, she also shared an untold number of songs with other Kazaa users that night.
Thankfully, the recording industry had Orwellian technology on their side. The labels used a special computer investigation unit called SafeNet to detect Ms. Thomas’ IP address and uncover her devious downloads. Once they discovered the sinister truth about this woman, they did what any reasonable group of multi-million dollar record companies would do: they sued her pants off.Thompson denied any involvement in file sharing, but a jury in
An RIAA spokesperson had this warning for any future Jammie Thomases: “We will continue to bring legal actions against those individuals who have broken the law. This program is important to securing a level playing field for legal online music services and helping ensure that record companies are able to invest in new bands of tomorrow.” Copyright infringement is no joke, people. Think about Ms. Thomas the next time you consider asking your friend to burn you a copy of his P.M. Dawn cd. By doing so, you could be cheating the world out of the next Del Amitri or Avril Lavigne.
